Top Ten Saddest Things I’ve Ever Seen In My Life
By Matt Lambert
1 Through 10: This picture of a kangaroo that’s survived for a whole week in the Australian wild with a gigantic arrow through its face. Jesus Christ.
Matt grew up in Takoma Park, MD, and attended a public French-immersion elementary school before going to a regular english-speaking middle school where he met Chris Baily and Juan Carlos Pineiro. He remembers sitting down with them at lunch one day in the early fall of 7th grade and thinking, "oh no... is this the nerd table?" Thank goodness it wasn't!
By Matt Lambert
1 Through 10: This picture of a kangaroo that’s survived for a whole week in the Australian wild with a gigantic arrow through its face. Jesus Christ.
By Matt Lambert
While the web has no shortage of artistic forums, few of them offer the elegant cohesion of The Workbook Project, an “open source social experiment” founded by maverick filmmaker and tech iconoclast Lance Weiler that sews together the communal knowledge of 21st century artists and craftsmen of all ilk into a rich and, well, enriching… Read More
By Matt Lambert
WIRED Magazine‘s Scott Brown pulls the drool-logged plug on the doddering old narrative structures of old, and from their ashes raises an alternative storytelling model for the 21st century and beyond – Brown’s Ziggurat.
Follow the link to compare the classic Heroic journey of supercop John McClane with Brown’s own Escheresque re-imagining of the familiar fable,
By Matt Lambert
You know what there’s not? A dearth of reviews of Chinese Democracy. Well first of all, the only review of Democracy that anyone really needs to read is Chuck Klosterman’s. Secondly, this isn’t really a review, it’s a Popten list. And thirdly, Guns N’ Roses has been my favorite band since I was eleven, which I… Read More
By Matt Lambert
So apparently there was some controversy and feelings of betrayal swirling around this ridiculously amazing video, when it was discovered that it was actually created by a rich and powerful (and, one assumes, soulless) ad agency, and not in fact by a group of suburban teenage geniuses.
Whatever.
I just discovered this sublime slice of… Read More
By Matt Lambert
Winter is coming, my friends. While speculation that HBO would be bringing “A Song of Ice and Fire” – George R.R. Martin’s epic (and as yet unfinished) fantasy series – to life has been circulating for well over a year now, the official greenlight has just been given to produce Season I, which will be entirely… Read More
By Matt Lambert
Something I made for the site of my cult webseries, The Fold – leave it to me to try to make the election nerdy and sci-fi-ish:
By Matt Lambert
Of all the Autumnal perks, I am going to boldly declare that my favorite part of Fall is the proliferation of pumpkins and pumpkin-derived goods. For one thing, pumpkins look freaking awesome. Even before you slice a visage into their hide, the unmolested pumpkin is still such a charming-looking gourd. They look almost half-cartoonish to me, like… Read More
By Matt Lambert
I always think it’s pretty lame when a music video is just a really literal interpretation of a song’s lyrics. Yet somehow when the song itself becomes a super-literal description of what’s happening in the video, it turns out to be divine:
By Matt Lambert
If you don’t still own a pair of cardboard 3-D glasses, then go pick up a pair before we proceed. All set? Okey-doke. The disgustingly talented people over at Encyclopedia Pictura have made an epic video for the Bjork song Wanderlust, and you can watch the friggin thing in 3-D on their website. Why has… Read More
Tomorrow marks 100 days since the BP oil spill in the gulf. I know they “successfully” capped it, but as long as that sucker is still leaking, I’m saying there is still an oil spill. But this disaster got me thinking a lot about the good old days of folk – when popular music regularly included anthems… Read More
When I was in my formative high school days, going to the Warped Tour was a highlight of the summer. Just old enough to drive, we’d pile about 9 bros and skateboards into mom-duke’s Ford Exploder and drive at high speed to Fitchburg or some other pseudo-municipality in middle Massachusetts, blasting Rage Against The Machine and… Read More
